Feather-horned Longhorn Beetle
Profile
Feather-horned Longhorn Beetle
Face
| Feather-horned Longhorn Beetle Profile | | Feather-horned Longhorn Beetle Face | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Beetles (Coleoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Longhorn Beetle (Cerambycidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Feather-horned Longhorn Beetle (Piesarthrius laminosus) | ||||
| This Photo: | Antenna | ||||
| Other names: | Longicorn Beetle, Long-horn Beetle or Long Horned Beetle | ||||
Thank you Francesco Vitali for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~15mm long with very long thin wide filaments on the antennae. It's difficult to determine how long the antennae are. Superficially they are a bit over 12mm long. However, the end segment has 2 filaments, of ~5mm long. So really the antennae are ~7mm, with 5mm of filament nearly doubling their length. The filaments vary in length, with the middle being the longest at ~7mm, and both edges being ~5mm. As with many longhorns, the eyes are heavily indented and wrap around the antennae base. | |||||
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